Those Doll Related Christmas Gifts I Mentioned

   Hello! I haven't disappeared. We've been getting electrical work done at the house, so we've been there. I'm still clearing up things that were thrown around after the fire. I'm also finding more damage than I thought. We had wonderful pocket doors between the foyer and the living room, and I discovered the other day that they won't pull out any more. Another area of the wall in the foyer has gone from looking fine, to looking a bit bulgey, to the plaster being ready to drop out. At least the lathe is still there, so I think I can plaster that, unlike Fuzz's room, where the lathe has been chopped out. That will have to be drywalled, which I really hate. My sister tells me that I am not capable of plastering, "even if we do have it in our blood". (Our grandpa was a professional plasterer.) All I can say is, I'm going to try to channel Grampa and do it myself, because we can't afford  to have it done.

  As it has been so dark, with no electricity and the windows boarded up, there are other things I come across. With no windows in Fuzz's room for a few days, and the boards that are on them not really sealing the windows up, 'things' get in. We've had at least two birds in the house while we've been out. Ken got one out of the house, but he found a dead one in the basement. (We've had to keep the basement door open, because our cat Arky won't come upstairs, or let himself be caught. He's been down there for a year now! I got him upstairs twice, and since then, he won't come up.) So, what do birds do? Besides singing, I mean. I keep finding more places the birds pooped all over the house. And mice. It's going to be a lot of work when we get back in!

  But enough of that. I said I'd show you my doll related Christmas gifts. Here's the first one. Ken bought me this cute pig ornament when we went shopping at Jungle Jim's, a huge store where they have everything, including foods from around the world.

 

    Ken also got me this Calico Critters Tea and Treats set.

I want real yard furniture like this.

  Since it's for Calico Critters it's more dollhouse sized than fashion doll sized. It fits Tammy World's brother, Gareth, quite well.

  Not too long ago I showed you some Smiskis. Ken got me three.

One of them was an adult and a baby Smiski.

They glow in the dark, and they do it much better than the Boo Berry he also got me.

Emma got me this Alice in Wonderland Tea Party set by Re-Ment.

  It's not the whole tea party. You buy it in pieces. I got the set with the rabbit.

She also got me a World's Smallest Scrabble. I already have two, but I didn't want to tell her that. Maybe I can trade one for a different game at some point.

And Emma also got me an actual working mini Rubik's Cube type puzzle.

And this mini mini golf set.

And in non doll related news, she also got me tickets to see an Alice in Wonderland ballet in February.

  Ivy was making something for me, but it isn't finished yet. But she brought me my other gifts: three Miniverse Make It Mini Food sets.

 

There were two pumpkin pie ones. Ivy didn't know they said what they were on the label. That's okay though. You can have two pumpkin pies.

There was also a coffee set. I'll pretend it's chocolate milk. I hate coffee.

The packages were decorated with Halloween things.

Oh, Emma also got me this mini box set, with mini labels and packing tape.

  The set of boxes comes from Temu, because I liked it when I saw it on there. I wouldn't buy it though, because it was one of those things I reacted to with, "I  could make something like that."

  My sister got me this cute tiny turtle, because, how cute is this guy?

  And of course you already saw the amazing hand made Pee Wee Herman doll my sister made for me, and the cool 11" Pee Wee doll that she bought for me, and the Muppet Christmas Carol Gonzo, and the Made to Move Barbie Ken got for me. I am hoping to get back into our house sometime this month, but it's a race. Our windows are supposed to be installed on the 23rd. Yay!

Doll-A-Day 2023 #308:Smiski

  Today we're looking at a series of little guys. I've had my eye on these for a while. Fuzz had one, (surely melted now.), and I have seen them on line, but I had never seen any in the wild until a couple of days ago. They're called Smiski.

  Smiski are little glow in the dark figures and, according to their official website, 

"Smiski are curious little creatures that love hiding in small spaces and corners of your room."

There have been a lot of different series of Smiskis. They are blind box figures that come in packages inside boxes. So even if you tear into the box, you can't see what figure is in there unless you also tear into the package within.

The only series the store actually carried was the 'bath series'.

  The store only had the bath series, but they had loads of old displays. And before you say it, I tried to buy the displays, but nobody knew anything about them. Ken even tried to call the next day and talk to the suggested manager, but she wasn't answering her phone. Looks like they've been selling, (or having stolen!), some of the figures in the displays, because according to their website, each series has six figures, and a secret figure that's randomly packed and hard to find, and none of the plexiglass displays had six figures in them.

This is the Living series. Left to right they are Hiding, Lifting, Playing, and Thinking.

This is just called 'series 2'.

This is the Cheer series. Looks like it has three pom pom toting figures.
  

This is the Dressing series.

This is series 4. Left to right: Relaxing, Scared,  Defeated, Lazy, and Sneaking.

Smiskis are about 3 to 4 inches tall...usually. There was also this big guy, who was a bobble head, and about 5 to 6 inches tall.

  The Bath series figures were blue. We did find one of those that wasn't in the display cases, so I got it for Christmas. Or, at least, I will. 

  The regular size Smiskis were $6.99, which is a bit much for something so small and simple, but compared to online prices, a really good deal! The big bobble head was $20. I think they're so cute. I got really excited when I saw them in an actual store. I wanted to scoop them all up and take them home!

  Those are today's dolls. Tomorrow we'll look at another interesting flashback doll.